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Re:LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:52PM (#48679036)
Re:The European Social Stack on Sunday June 21, 2026 @01:35PM (#48620845)
And the regulation doesn't need to be overly complicated:

* Ban targeted ads or make them opt in;

* Ban targeted content or make it opt in;

* Enforce the use of a do not track header - if the user does not want to be tracked a simple browser or OS setting should be enough.

It seems to me that the world would be a much better place if targeted ads were simply forbidden. Likewise for targeted content.
Re:Thunderbird Time Machine: Windows XP and Thunderbird 1.0 on Thursday August 18, 2022 @06:31PM (#32515630)
> the actual email list, has barely changed in 20 years

That's about to change:

https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap

Re:Thunderbird Time Machine: Windows XP and Thunderbird 1.0 on Thursday August 18, 2022 @06:23PM (#32515568)
And with two clicks you can make it permanently visible.
Re:An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email on Sunday April 10, 2022 @06:38PM (#30982428)
Plus addressing is not unique to gmail nor it was invented by google.

For example, to enable plus addressing in postfix is only a matter of defining:

recipient_delimiter = +

Re:Zim – A Desktop Wiki on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @04:30PM (#30092188)
> Cons: I don't like when it automatically creates notes for all phrases written in CamelCase. It is a wiki, but i don't use it as a true wiki, but as a bunch of notes.

There's a preference to ignore CamelCase:

https://i.imgur.com/88SZTY9.png

Re:The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:27PM (#29372645)
A more enjoyable version (transcript from the book):

http://b.johnwurth.com/aspen-20/

Re:Lepton – Firefox UI Fix on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:19AM (#27434755)
For maximum effect I also use:

* browser.compactmode.show=true - enable compact mode

* browser.menu.showViewImageInfo=true - show menu icons

Re:Drawbacks of P2P and a defense of Signal on Sunday January 31, 2021 @07:16AM (#25978253)
What's running server side?
> They are mutually exclusive.

Well, Newton had lots of very kooky ideas. And yet...

Indeed it was! This library produced easily discoverable UIs, it worked just as well with the keyboard or the mouse. The default layout was very pleasant.

From the developer's perspective, it was a joy to work with. I made some projects using pascal and C++ if I remember correctly.

Re:Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:02PM (#24423851)
Yes, the same applies to newspapers and magazines online. We need a law demanding a legal digital deposit at least at the national level.

It is somewhat trivial to devise an API to be integrated in the publications pipelines to automatically and transparently submit new and modified articles to a central repository.

Turbo Vision, this is TUI perfection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision

Re:Pinebook Pro longer term usage report on Sunday July 26, 2020 @07:54AM (#23956393)
Typing this on a PBP, Manjaro 20.07 i3.

> Alt-tabbing between Firefox and a terminal takes one second, as does switching between Firefox tabs.

This is not my experience at all. I do not notice undue delays switching between applications (do not use slack).

> The wifi is not very good, it can't connect reliably to an access point in the next room

No problems at all. This weekend I'm at my parents, I am connected to an old wrt54gl all day long. I have problems with my other laptop (XPS 13) on the same network.

> The screen size and resolution scream for fractional scaling but Manjaro does not seem to provide it.

I've been using this machine since late March, I didn't take notes when I configured it but, from what I remember, I only had to make some small adjustments [1] to get things right.

Sure, the PBP is an under-powered machine but, given the right allowances (the software is under development, the trackpad is not the best, suspend is not working correctly, etc), I find it easy to use as a daily driver most of the time.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI

edit: typo and link

There is a new installer for windows for the latest Zim version, it was announced last Tuesday, you can get it on the Zim wiki download page: https://zim-wiki.org/downloads/
Re:How to Take Smart Notes on Sunday February 16, 2020 @01:08PM (#22342859)
Take a look at Zim wiki: https://zim-wiki.org/